The Most Arnold-y Lines of Schwarzenegger's New Book

Sure, many politicians write biographies after they retire. So do many actors. But there really is nothing quite like the new autobiography by Arnold Schwarzenegger, Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story. The book has been out for mere hours. Here are some of the choicest passages we found, to be read in Arnold voice.

On steroids: "The advantage they gave was about the same as having a good suntan."

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On Nixon: "'What is his party called again?' I asked Artie. 'Republican.' 'Then I'm a Republican.'"

"The challenge was to lock into the cyborg's cold no-emotion behavior."

"I was really scared, and all I could think of was to go to the gym for help."

"...I decided he sounded too Austrian."

"The biggest complication of Red Sonja for me was Red Sonja."

"I put at the very top of my list, 'explore running for governor in 2002.'"

"It was the kind of smile that meant, 'Arnold, shit in your pants because this woman is going to trample all over you.'"

"...like when I left my decision to run for governor until the afternoon I walked onstage with Jay Leno."

Near the end of his book, Schwarzenegger outlines some of the rules he lives by every day. Here are a few of them: